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SHUTTING OFF UNSIGHTLY VACANT LOTS 



This yard is next to an alley in which there are telephone 

 and other poles which make it very unsightly. To shut off the 

 view, trees and half standard shrubs were used and the effect 

 is magical. The trees are Catalpa Speciosa, Wier's Cut-Leaved 

 Maple, Salisburia, Russian Mulberry and Prunus Pissardi planted 

 ten feet apart, and the space between is filled with Tartarian 

 Honeysuckle and Viburnum. The front planting consists of 

 Deutzia Gracilis and Berberis Thunbergii. 



In the Greening Pictorial System of Landscape Gardening 

 as much attention is paid to shutting out objectionable views as 

 to creating new views in the yard proper; and it is just as impor- 

 tant to appropriate distant views, such as a glimpse of water in 

 the offscape or a patch of sky, so that the owner has but to 

 stretch forth his hand and caress the clouds. 



BACK-YARD GARDENING 



This is a good example of an informal back-yard garden. 

 Observe the open lawn and the undulating contour of the shrub- 

 bery border to produce a natural effect. The shrubs used are 

 Lilacs, Spiraeas, Syringas, Snowberries, Weigelias, Dogwoods, 

 Witch-hazel, and Tartarian Honeysuckle. The trees are Paul's 

 Double Flowering Thorn, Mountain Ash, Maple and Elm. 



This border planting shuts out a very unpleasant view near 

 the barnyard, which is in fact the hog-lot; but no one would sus- 

 pect their presence by either smell or sound, so dense is the 

 planting and so numerous the flowers. There is no reason why 

 farmers should not have attractive surroundings when a little 

 forethought and a small outlay will give them a private park 

 such as city people pay large sums of money to obtain. It is just 

 as easy and much more convenient and artistic to have the hog- 

 lot near the corn-crib instead of near the house, and, as for Mr. 

 Hog, not even the Chicago packers can find music either in his 

 grunt or squeal. 



